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El Capitan and Homebrew: update instructions.

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These seem to not apply for everyone on 10.11 any more (as explained
in Homebrew/homebrew#45387).

Closes Homebrew/homebrew#45387.

Closes Homebrew/homebrew#45566.

Signed-off-by: Mike McQuaid <mike@mikemcquaid.com>
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Part of the OS X 10.11/El Capitan changes is something called [System Integrity Protection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Integrity_Protection) or "SIP".
SIP prevents you from writing to many system directories such as `/usr`, `/System` & `/bin`, regardless of whether or not you are root. The Apple keynote is [here](https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2015/?id=706) if you'd like to learn more.
SIP prevents you from writing to many system directories such as `/usr`, `/System` & `/bin`, regardless of whether or not you are root. The Apple keynote is [here](https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2015/?id=706) if you'd like to learn more. As noted in the keynote, Apple is leaving `/usr/local` open for developers to use, so Homebrew can still be used as expected.
One of the implications of SIP is that you cannot simply create `/usr/local` if you have removed it. However, as noted in the keynote, Apple is leaving `/usr/local` open for developers to use, so Homebrew can still be used as expected.
One of the implications of SIP was that you could not simply create `/usr/local` if you had removed it. This issue was fixed with the `com.apple.pkg.SystemIntegrityProtectionConfig.14U2076` update.
**If you haven't installed Homebrew in `/usr/local` or another system-protected directory, this document does not apply to you.**
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## If `/usr/local` does not exist:
First, try to create `/usr/local` the normal way:
```bash
sudo mkdir /usr/local && sudo chflags norestricted /usr/local && sudo chown -R $(whoami):admin /usr/local
```
If you see permission issues instead try:
* Reboot into Recovery mode (Hold Cmd+R on boot) & access the Terminal.
* In that terminal run: